GT5 The GT5 Prologue Hot Lap Challenge

[Kevin Watts]

The GT5 Prologue Hot Lap Challenge​

Gentlemen start your engines! The format is simple, each week a car and track will be chosen to run hot laps. Starting Saturday 12pm GMT and finishing the following Saturday 12pm GMT you will be invited to submit your lap times for that challenge. Once the challenge deadline is met the slowest placed driver gets to pick the car and track for the following week (this is usually me!)​

Taking part is simple, fire up GT5 Prologue and select the car for the challenge, click on 'Arcade' in the menu then choose the track and then select 'Time Trial' from the menu and then select the settings shown below:​

Transmission - Manual
Active Steering - Off
Driving Physics - Professional
Active Stability Management (ASM) - Off
Traction Control - Off
Driving Line - Off
Front Tyres - Sports S2
Rear Tyres - Sports S2​

Once you've selected that you can then start hot lapping, look at the online leaderboards or load a ghost lap. There are no tuning options so everyone runs the same setup.​

To make it fair and competitive please don't cut the track or abuse the run off area's to gain an advantage, at least half the car should be on the track at all times and on street tracks don't use the barriers to give you an unfair advantage, the idea of the hot lap challenges is to run clean laps in the fastest time possible.​

Good luck and above all have fun!​

 

[Neil Robinson]

new time : 2'00.908 - 143rd

 

[Chris Rogerson]

2.01.710 for me 277th

 

[Roy Visser]

Hey chris! I made jeroen buy a PS3 too, going to install everything at his place tonight

 

[Peter Eriksson]

Have to join you guys in the wait for the real game so i dust off my gt5 proluge and was able to make a 2,00,404 rank 96 alias Vopee

 

[Kevin Watts]

A lowly 2'03.710 for me

 

[Kevin Watts]

Congrats to Peter winning his debut challenge! It appears front wheel drive cars are the popular choice so as this weeks last place larry I'll choose the Ford Focus ST '06 for a hustle around the streets of London in its reverse configuration.

 

[Peter Eriksson]

Tried it but it felt like it could go alot faster with a handbreak, the focus really likes to plow, anyhow a made a 59,310 lap rank 35 or so.

 

[Neil Robinson]

Best of 1'00,121 ~ 92nd online, should probably have done a bit better because i have a focus st! lol

 

[Kevin Watts]

Sorry guys working again this weekend, not posted a lap. I'll post the results later - congrats to Peter who was quickest this week. In the meantime Evilone if you could chose a car and track for the next challenge please

 

[Neil Robinson]

Ok, Lotus Elise 111r '04 on Suzuka Curcuit

 

[Kevin Watts]

I'm going to have to be excused this week. Finally got my Fanatec wheel but having issues. At first I thought I was just a bit out of practice as the car was very unstable through corners but when I started my second lap I noticed the ghost cars brake lights flickering and now I've tested my setup on a PC its doing the same thing. I've plugged the pedals into my PC directly via USB and all is good but as soon as I use them with the PS/2 lead that connects the pedals to the wheel the problem returns. I have a replacement lead on order anyway to extend the shifter unit so I'll try that but for now I'm going to try the really short PS/2 lead that normally connects the shifter and see if its the lead, I hope it is else the wheel has to go back.

<Update> I've been messing around with different leads and settings no joy, posted on the Fanatec site about my problem and someone posted a link to a new firmware update so I'm hoping its going to fix it. Bloody typical! had time tonight to sit down and put a good few laps in as I'm working again this weekend so no lap time for me.

 

[Peter Eriksson]

Bad luck Kevin, btw for how long is it possible to do a lap at this week challange, just wondering couse i work alot to these week

Edit: just see that i have until 12:00pm GMT saturday

 

[Neil Robinson]

Best this week 2'25.403 pretty crap really, but i have had the dreaded swine flu

 

[Kevin Watts]

Well thankfully the pedals just needed a firmware update so its all back up and running now. While I was testing it out I did a few laps using last weeks choice of the Lotus at Suzuka but only managed a 2'28 but the challenge is closed now anyway so please choose next weeks track and car please Evilone.

 

[Neil Robinson]

Pretty disapointing turnout lastweek tbh - on to this week and its the eigernordwand (forward config) in the impreza WRX STi type Ra '05

 

[Kevin Watts]

I'm now back up and running after my pedal issues so I'll be taking part this week, nice choice evilone

 

[Kevin Watts]

1'16.658 so far though I'm sure its nowhere near fast enough

 

[Neil Robinson]

It's actually pretty hard to get a good lap time tbh kevin, i'll post my time later when i logon to psn

 

[Neil Robinson]

1'14'881 @ present - way off the best online tbh

neil

 

[Kevin Watts]

Nice time there Evilone, congrats. I'll post a car and track up later :good: